MULTILINGUALISM AND INTERPRETING TRAINING FOR THE EU

• Autor(a) principal: Matias, Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.v0i13.3024
• topic: Formação de Intérpretes em Interpretação Consecutiva e Simultânea; Interpretação de Acompanhamento e Interpretação de Conferência; Instituições Europeias; Interpreters’ Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting Training; Community and Conference Interpreting; European Institutions

This article context is located in the realm of multiculturalism and multilingualismas characteristics of modern Europe. Addressing this issue, Peter Hans Nelde affirms that“Language planning and language policy have thus become established in the culturalplanning of the EU members in such a way that they are now even recognized byoutsiders” (Nelde, 2007: 60). According to my interpretation of his words, the languageplanning policy of the EU members should also pay attention to the second generationimmigrants who return to their parents' homeland, Portugal, which is the focus of thisarticle among bilinguals.I wish to address bilingualism in the training of Conference Interpreting,approaching multilingualism in the context of the European institutions as potentialworking places for our students and trainees in their future professional field, that is,interpreting. According to Joanne Winter and Anne Pauwels, “the second generations areseen as threats or challenges to language maintenance as well as potential transformers forbi/multilingualism and linguistic diversity” (Winter & Pauwels, 2007: 180). I approach theissue from another perspective: the contribution that the second generation can give to themarket place after having been trained in higher education because bilinguals arefundamental in the field of conference interpreting.The current analysis is inspired by my own post-graduation as a student at ETI(Geneva’s University “École de Traduction et Interprètation”), the experience of brieflyMatias, Helena Anacleto - Multilingualism and Interpreting Training for the EU 67-8468 Polissema – Revista de Letras do ISCAP – Vol.13 - 2013interpreting at the European Parliament, in the late nineteen eighties, in Brussels,Luxembourg and Strasbourg, by the experience of training interpreters for twelve years andfrom the analysis of specialized literature on the subject.